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The path, stages and packs
How the 1,000 words are ordered into batches and stages, and the themed packs that come after.
The path is the 1,000 words in the order to learn them: the most used first. It’s split into 50 batches of 20, grouped in five stages of 200 words, then a sixth stage of themed packs.
| Stage | Words |
|---|---|
| 1 · Essentials | 1–200 |
| 2 · Everyday | 201–400 |
| 3 · Conversation | 401–600 |
| 4 · Expressive | 601–800 |
| 5 · Well-rounded | 801–1,000 |
| 6 · Beyond 1,000 | The themed packs |
The Path tab
- Path, Decks and Drills: three ways into the same words. What you learn in one counts in all of them.
- The stages. Your current stage is selected; tap another to look ahead or back.
- A finished batch has a check. Open it to review it any time.
- Your current batch, opened: its words colored mastered, known, learning or new. Show English adds each one’s English.
- Study this batch opens it to set up a session.
Each batch row says how far along it is (how many words are mastered, known and learning, or the first few words if you haven’t started it) and has a strip underneath: one square per word, in path order. Purple is mastered, teal known, pale teal learning and sand new, as on your map, so you can watch a batch fill in from one visit to the next.
When to move on
You don’t have to know every word in a batch before starting the next: the app keeps bringing the earlier words back in your reviews. A good rhythm is to start a new batch once you know most of the current one, and to keep up with your daily review.
Themed packs
After the core 1,000, seven packs add the words for particular parts of life: Travel, Food & cooking, Health & the body, Nature & animals, Work & money, Culture & celebrations and News, politics & the law.
Packs are open at any time, from stage 6 on the Path tab. Once you’ve finished stage 2, Home suggests them too. Each pack is its own set of batches, and your progress in packs is counted separately from the core: x / 1,000 known, plus a count for each pack at the bottom of Insights once packs are open.
- Each pack, with how many of its words you know.
- Open the packs on the path.
On the free plan
Free accounts include the first three batches of each language: 60 words, every way of practicing them, and their reviews. The full plan opens the whole path, packs included.